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I started watching this film as a cynic. But perhaps Baron Munchausen taught me what his companion Tonik had to learn — that dreams, even absurd ones, can help us transcend the limitations that we place on ourselves. Maybe Baron Munchausen was never meant to convince us to fantasise about...
The Invisible Man continues to stalk contemporary media across genres, in superhero franchises and in alien worlds. But why exactly is invisibility so compelling as a plot device? Visuality is so central to cinema, and yet, isn’t it kind of paradoxical that something we can’t see presents such potent terror?...
Their journey across time mirrored many serene, hazy afternoons I had spent pouring over time graphs and diagrams in my second-hand copy of The Day of the Dinosaurs (1986), admiring the gouache painted osteoderms of an Ankylosaurus, rolling the long scientific Latin names off my tongue. I saw in their...
Tokusatsu films like Gamera thrive in this overlapping space between memory and fantasy, where the imperfection of effects become an essential part of the experience, as reminders of a time when our imagination filled in the gaps. These practical effects are less about realism and more so an invitation to...
Close your eyes and face the bright of the sun. Let it burn into your eyelids a hot, vivid, red; let it sear its temporary mark onto your retinas until everything goes white-hot, just a few seconds will do, then turn away, and open your eyes....
The 2023 science fiction thriller, No One Will Save You, seems to harken back to the days of silent film. There is barely any dialogue in the entire film, which instead, keeps audiences in a state of constant alertness by heightening the mundane sound effects of floors creaking and dial...